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intermedia, Kr., in rabbit burrows; Colon dentipes, Sahib., one specimen 

 at rest on a fence post; Neuraphes angulatus, Miill., one specimen in 

 moss; N. rubicundus, Shm., one specimen in rotten wood ; A r . spar- 

 shalli, Den., one specimen in rotten wood ; N. var. minutus, Chand., 

 four specimens in haystack refuse; Pselaphus dresdensis.Ubst., abundant 

 in moss, but very local ; Tychus niger, Payk., not uncommon in rotten 

 wood, amongst moss, and in dead leaves; Bythinus palidus, Aub., locally 

 abundant in moss and in grass roots; Euplectus sanguineus, Den., in 

 decaying straw, scarce ; E. piceus, Mots., in rotten wood, moderately 

 common ; E. ambiguus, Reich., abundant by sweeping in a swamp and 

 also in moss in marshy places ; E. mmutissimus, Aub., one specimen 

 under a stone embedded in damp sand in company with Homalota 

 subtillissima, pattens, and Thinobius linearis, April 6th, 1906, this was 

 previous to J. J. Walker noting this species ; Ptinella aptera, Guer., 

 beneath bark on a dead ash-tree ; Tricopteryx bovina, Mots., common 

 in old dry horse- and cow-dung ; Orthoperus atomus, Gyll., local but 

 not uncommon in refuse in hedge bottoms; Olibrus aeneus, F., one 

 specimen on carrion, a very strange place to find this species, this is 

 the only record for the county; Halyzia lQ-guttata, L., one specimen 

 in flood refuse; Scymnus haemorrhoidalis, Hbst., several specimens from 

 flood refuse and sweeping beneath hedges ; Chilocorus similis, Ross., 

 one specimen by beating willow bushes; C. bipustulatus, L., not 

 uncommon by beating willow bushes on heaths ; Alexia pilifera, Mull., 

 locally abundant in moss in fir woods ; Hister bissexstriatus, F., one 

 specimen in carrion; Hister 12- striat as, Schl., in carrion, not common; 

 Pachylopus maritimus, Steph., common in dung and carrion in the 

 Solway district ; Anitas minutus, Hbst., in decaying straw at Silloth, 

 in numbers; Meligethes viduatus, Stm., a rare find amongst the flowers 

 of Geam rivale ; Monotonia conicicollis, Aub., common in nests of 

 Formica rufa at Keswick; Enicmus testaceas, Steph., scarce in fungi 

 on alder ; I believe Mr. Day has recorded my supposed capture of E. 

 rugosus, Herbst, this record will have to be deleted in favour of a new 

 British species which is in hand at the present time, and will be duly 

 recorded in the Ent. Mo. May. ; GfLrtodere ruficollis, Marsh., very common 

 in haystack refuse in this district ; C, filiformis, Gyll., two specimens 

 taken in my house during 1906 ; Telmatophilus caricis, 01., common, 

 sweeping amongst Sparganium ; Cryptophagus lycoperdi, Hbst., in 

 a small puff-ball in Baron Wood; Atomaria diluta, Er., in flood 

 refuse, scarce ; Mycetophagus atomarius, F., one specimen in fungus ; 

 Tiresias serra, F., under bark, not common; Florilinus musaeorum, 

 L., abundant on the walls of my house and in flowers; Aspidi- 

 /ihtiras orbiculatus, Gyll., scarce in fungi on old stumps; Geotrupes 

 typhaeus, L., abundant on sandy heaths ; Malthodes pellucidus, Kies, 

 abundant by beating and sweeping; Phlaeophilus edwardsi, Steph., 

 common on fence posts round a wood during the autumn and winter 

 months; Pti?ias subpilosus, Miill., rare, beneath the bark of a sycamore 

 tree ; Hedobia imperialis, L., bred from white cocoons taken beneath 

 bark on dead crab stumps in hedges; Dryophilus pusillus, Gyll., 

 abundant on larch trees ; Anobium paniceum, L., bred in numbers 

 amongst garden seeds; < 'is micans, F., in fungi on beech ; C. hispidus, 

 Payk., in fungi on ash; C. lineatocribratm, Mel., in fungi on birch; 

 Asemam striatum, L., abundant in stumps of Scotch fir ; Donacia obscura, 

 Gyll., by sweeping amongst Carex in May; l>. affinis, Kunz., by sweeping 



